Wire fence



(No Model.)

0. LANE. WIRE FENCE.

No! 662,308. Patented June 16,1896.

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UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS LANE, OF HOLLY, MICHIGAN.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,308, dated June 16,1896.

Application filed February 4, 1895. Serial No. 537,157. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS LANE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Holly, county of Oakland, State of Michigan, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Wire Fences; and I declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to wire fences, and is an improvement upon thatform of fence and the principle involved and claimed therein describedin-Letters Patent to John Lane and Cornelius Lane, No. 518,506, datedApril 17, 1894; and it consists in the combination and arrangementhereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows one form in which the improvement may beutilized, and Fig. 2 another form.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

In the drawings, A A represent corrugated pickets, which are or may becorrugated throughout their entire extent, or they may be constructed asshown in Fig. 2, at A A, with corrugations simply at the point ofintersection, it being evident that the intermediate corrugations are ofno use, so far as the locking together of the strands and pickets isconcerned.

B represents in both figures a single wire, with and around which areinterlaced two other wires 0 and D.

The pickets A and A have corrugations a and a, the plane of thecorrugations being transverse to the plane of the fence.

It will be observed that the wires B and G are locked in thecorrugations a and a eX- act-1y the same as those shown in the LettersPatent referred to. The improvement consists in adding the third wire1), which is either woven or twisted in or around the wires B and C, sothat it shall lock in a corresponding corrugation a of the picket Abelow that into which the wire B is locked. Hence, the picket A isinterlocked with B, and upon each side thereof, upon the opposite sideof the picket, and in corresponding corrugations by the two wires 0 andD, which makes a much stronger, stiffer structure than that referred toin the said Letters Patent.

In Fig. 1, I have illustrated the three wires 13, O, and D as beingbraided together, and the pickets A A as being corrugated throughouttheir whole extent. In Fig. 2, I have shown the wires B and O as beingtwisted, reversing the twist at each picket, and the wire D beingtwisted about B and O with a reverse twist at each picket. The pickets AA are shown with a single corrugation engaged by B, the rest of thepicket being straight, thus showing how the wires engage the picket Awith the same effect that they do in Fig. 1, simply omitting thesuperfluous corrugations.

It is evident from the foregoing that the gist of my invention is inadding the third wire and interlacing it with or winding it about thetwo wires described in the patent hereinbefore mentioned, and having itengage the picket in such manner that two of the wires engage it in twocorrugations, while the third wire engages the picket on the oppositeside in the intermediate corrugation,the three wires thus forming asingle strand of the fence, which strand, being made up in a similarmanner, and all cooperating to make a comparatively rigid and yetelastic structure in which each part and picket is held firmly with thecorrugations, as hereinbefore stated, in a plane at right angles to theplane of the fence.

It is obvious that, while I have described the combination of the threewires B, O, and D, each of the wires may yet be replaced by cablescomposed of any number of wires twisted together, and I do not desire tobe limited in using the term and description wires B, O, and D tostrands composed of three wires only, for the expressed reason that saidWires might be replaced by any number of wires, provided they weretwisted into three cables and arranged as wires B, C, and D aredescribed.

While the fence described in said Letters Patent is a practical fence tobuild in the field where it is intended to stand, yet it is not freefrom defects when it is rolled in a cylindrical form for transportation,as the springing of the wires in rolling loosens the pickets. Theimprovement hereinbefore describedobviates this difficulty and enablesme to construct the fence in this shape in any length, roll it up inrolls, transport it to the field and place it in position without theloosening of a single strand or picket.

What I claim is-- 1. In a wire fence, the combination of picketscorrugated at the intersections with the strands, each strand compoundedof three wires arranged, one centrally in one corrugation upon one sideof the picket, and one upon either side thereof in substantially twoother corrugations, thereby locking the picket with the strands,substantially as specified and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a wire fence, the combination of pick ets corrugated at theintersections with the strands, strands composed of three wires/anranged, one centrally in one corrugation upon one side of the picket,and one upon either side thereof in substantially two othercorrugations, thereby locking the picket with the strands, the wires B,O and D being twisted upon each other, substantially as specified andfor the purpose set forth.

I11 testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

CORNELIUS LANE. lVitnesses:

F. OLoUeH, R. A. PARKER.

